La Torre de Fontaubella

Can you build a house on rustic land?

Catalonia allows no new houses on rustic land. Restoring an existing or listed building is the way.

DL 1/2010, art. 47. A town plan can be stricter.

Plan in force: Plan General (a full town plan), from 2008. The region's planning viewer ↗

The national urban information system (SIU) maps the land class for 100% of the municipality.

Only the town hall can confirm it, in writing: ask for a certificado urbanístico.

Is there water?

IGME records 2 wells and boreholes in La Torre de Fontaubella. Half of the 2 with a depth found water at 120–150 m. 3 springs are recorded.

Ground: 51% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 32% practically impermeable; 12% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity; 5.4% porous aquifer, medium productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• 0.5% of the municipality lies in the 500-year flood zone.
• 45% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• 45% of the municipality is a protected natural area, whose plan limits what can be done.
• Radon zone I: new and restored homes need radon protection by law.

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 88%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 469 mm a year (1971–2000), about 400 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 28.5 °C, about 31.8 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 17 a year, about 6 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Colldejou · Pradell de la Teixeta · L'Argentera